ATTAINT, among farriers, signifies a knock, or hurt in a horse’s leg; proceeding either from a blow with another horse’s foot, or from an over-reach in frosty weather, when a horse being rough-shod, or having shoes with long calks, strikes his hinder feet against his fore-leg.
The farriers distinguish upper attaints, given by the toe of the hind-foot upon the sinew of the fore-leg—and nether attaints, or over-reaches on the pastern-joint, which are little bladders like wind-galls, coming either by a wrench, a strain, an over-reach, or the like. The usual place is in the heel or crust.
ATTAINT
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